Hi! Yeah, the button is definitely there. I've done it, too, but it's kind of a roundabout way of performing a clean install. The fastest way I've found so far was to burn it to a DVD, then use Disk utilities on that DVD to format the drive and install the operating system. Installing OS X Lion, then launching its recovery partition only to reformat, then download the image off of Apple's servers seems ridiculous, even though that seems to be the method Apple even recommends. I guess, in truth, it was meant as an upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion given its distribution through the App Store, and I can see why. Since the Recovery Partition it carves out needs the Application later in order to get access to the disk image on your internal drive, it can't format the drive nor reinstall it from scratch without a DVD or downloading a new installer. Now, if it only downloaded an application which contained an application to extract the recovery image, it'd be another story as you could then download the entire operating system off of Apple's servers from the recovery partition.
Regards, Nic On Jul 30, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > A clean instal can definitely be done, several of us have done it, myself > included. What is interesting, during the install, there is a customize > button, but it's disabled. > On Jul 30, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > >> That is correct. In fact, when I asked an apple rep about doing a clean >> install, I was basicly told that it can't be done. >> Obviously, this isn't the case, and once an update or tow has been released >> to fix some of the more serious bugs, I intend to >> attempt a clean lion install, but the rep I talked to basicly said that by >> doing it as an update over top of SL, I was doing >> it correctly, and that a clean install wouldn't resolve any of my issues. >> So, even if I do try a clean lion install some day, >> I'm going to keep the backup I made prior to going back to SL, because all >> my voices, settings, etc. are in place on that >> backup. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James AUSTIN >> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 12:02 PM >> To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility >> Subject: Re: shame on you apple >> >> Because, Lion as far as i understand it was supposed to be installed over >> the top of Snow Leopard. It's just me being me, >> opted to do a fresh installation, which is something I always do with new >> operating systems. >> On 30 Jul 2011, at 16:56, william lomas wrote: >> >>> hi all >>> >>> >>> Why was it please when I ran install of lion was I given no options to set >>> anything? >>> no language choices, printer drivers, it just ran install not impressed >>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>> >>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>> [email protected] >>> >>> You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the >>> Mac-Access forum at the following URL: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>> >>> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >>> and worm-free! >>> >>> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >>> the list website at: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the >> Mac-Access forum at the following URL: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> >> >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the >> Mac-Access forum at the following URL: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
